The Draft Heritage Strategy and Action Plan was open for community feedback between 26 September and 30 October, 2023. The community was invited to view the draft document and rank their top 5 heritage actions. The following is a summary of the community’s involvement:

1. Continue to promote heritage and heritage venues through tourism events and heritage attractions.
2. Establish routine heritage asset management and conservation of Greater Bendigo owned and managed heritage properties
3. Review existing conservation management plans for Greater Bendigo owned and managed places and identify and prioritise which plans need review and which places require a plan to be prepared
4. Increase public education and awareness of built heritage with release and advertisement of the trial financial assistance grant program
5. Continue engagement with Traditional Owners and seek opportunity for staff training

The most common themes from the comments, submissions and meeting were:

Thank you to everyone who participated and provided feedback. Your feedback is valuable to the development of this Strategy. Once we have reviewed all the feedback, we will make relevant changes to the draft document. We will present your feedback and the final draft to Council. If they approve it, we will post another update on Let's Talk. Please follow the project for updates.